Category: Sentinel-EDM News

EDISON — Police said two men tried to steal computers from a Northfield Avenue warehouse in broad daylight last week. Two suspects entered the warehouse sometime after 2 p.m. on Nov. 4 inquiring about job openings, and were told by a supervisor that only driving jobs were open, police reports said. A short time later,…

Metuchen school focus of teenager BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — For East Brunswick’s David Thorne, providing the borough with a needed service should land him a lofty perch shortly. The 17-year-old has spent the past couple of months scraping and repainting the exterior of the Old Franklin School building…

BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Depending on whom you talk to, the dedication of the Oak Tree Pond site last week was either an open space preservation milestone or a developer’s political coup. Mayor George A. Spadoro stood on the site Nov. 4 and declared victory in…

MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Metuchen Citizens Police Academy participants were shown techniques using bomb-sniffing dogs Nov. 4. Here, Bob Flaherty plays with K-9 Officer Torch of the New Brunswick Fire Department.

Paranoid that the polls would be so overcrowded that I might not be able to vote, I set my alarm for 5 a.m. I showered and shaved, and by 5:45 I was approaching the mighty pillars of Moss School, ready to cast my ballot. There was an eerie early-morning silence, but when I opened the…

Edison Township Division of Senior Citizens Services Nov. 17 meeting will feature Dale Ofei-Ayisi, a licensed clinical social worker and coordinator of community services for Comprehensive Services on Aging (COPSA), University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). All are welcome. The division is also offering a series of three seminars for new and…

BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — It has the look, the substance and the panache. That’s why the J.P. Stevens High School yearbook, “The Regalis”, won the Garden State Scholastic Press Association (GSSPA) All-New Jersey award for the second year in a row, said Susan Dougherty, GSSPA secretary.…

BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — It’s not quite a feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys. However, the quest for open space in the township has unearthed political rifts between the more affluent north and the blue collar south sections of town. The south gets the short…

JOHN E SZPARA Navjeet Singh (l) and Pravin Jadhav, both of Jersey City, check out children’s artwork that depict Hindu gods, goddesses and rituals at the Diwali Festival of Lights at the Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, last week.